I have used surgical spirits on occasion for lighting stoves and lamps, burns with a near invisible flame, I suspect this must be a very pure form...
I have two paraffin invector heaters, very efficient but they do gobble up the paraffin, original plan was to run them on heating kerosene but the...
What privileges do I (a subscriber) need before I can reply to anything on the trading post?
You sure are well genned up on your facts and figures Derek.
I have a multi fuel stove and burn little else but wood in it, I do not feel guilty about this because being a semi retired forester I have been...
It's not the clutter in the car that's the problem Jean the inside of my car more resembles a works van, where to store them would be the problem...
The aladdin lamp is the type that was commonly used for light throughout the highlands before electricity, as a boy in the 50s I remember more of...
Well that would certainly keep me fettling for a while but I can just about imagine what the wife would say if I arrived home with a car load like...
Welcome to the forum Peter, you should get all the advice you need from somebody here.
My apologies for showing a stove on the lamp forum but somebody did ask to see it. A primus 71 stove made from 1930 until the 1970s so must be...
60 years ago I would have got the belt for that mistake David.
Since it is unlikely any of us will be using vast quantities of fuel in our lamps or stoves the higher price of naptha should not be too...
This post may be more suited to the stove club but all this talk of naptha has inspired it. I keep a very old petrol primus stove at my place of...
If ever the population of a country was sick of a subject it must be the British people and Brexit, for most of our politicians scoring political...
I had been struggling to fit a veritas tilley mantle to a vapalux 300 lamp, the bottom is just too tight and the cord kept breaking, I took a...
Hi Darryl, My Tilley did something similar with a new vapouriser, orange flame actually coming out the top of the lamp.Turned out the jet hole in...
I stand corrected Jeff, of the four lamps I have only the old vapalux in the photo above seems to have a steel tank. I can only assume they were...
Thanks for the info KAB, that would tie in with my father in law buying his holiday hut. To bring up a completely different subject I often see...
Have 'hopefully' attached an image ( I aint no computer geek) these two lamps were in my deceased father in laws shed he had a cabin from the late...
Hope it doesn't offend the purist but I find plumbers PTFE tape wrapped round the threads pretty well guarantees a seal, works well for sealing a...
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